Posted on January 23, 2018 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
More Amazing Rescues and Recoveries At AAU India.
Moses was almost killed by flies…
A swarm of flies surrounded his head in a buzzing cloud, and their larvae devoured the side of his head and his entire ear. The pain and confusion had almost defeated sweet, aged Moses. When we found him on the street and slowly approached him, he was unable to even react. He had no more will to resist, and barely the energy, it seemed to keep himself in a sitting position. But once we brought him back to Animal Aid’s hospital and gave him pain killers, antibiotics, IV fluids, removed the maggots and his first of many bandages was secured, Moses began almost immediately to show his true colors. After more than 2 months of care, get ready to meet someone adorable.
Thank you for helping save his life. And for the hurting sweethearts to come, please donate.
Dog dizzy with pain from swollen head recovers
We could see from a distance that this disoriented and stumbling street dog was deeply troubled. As our rescue team approached we could see that her face and head were swollen so acutely that the ridge of her nose was disappearing within the puffed surface of her eye sockets and cheeks. Her eyes were filled with confusion and pain. Though a small wound on her throat was visible when we rescued her, we had no idea what was really wrong.
Once on the treatment table at Animal Aid, everything became clear. Pauline was suffering from a massive infection caused by maggots buried inside the flesh of her neck. Removing the worms was accomplished within hours but the wound would take five weeks to heal. Pauline is a shy older girl who was never became completely comfortable being touched. But she seemed to know she was in loving hands because within the weeks that followed, Pauline’s wound not only healed, but her happiness blossomed and she shares her heart through her radiant smile.
Pauline would have died without urgent help. Thank you so much for making sure she got it in time.
The young men who take care of street dog Tony anxiously pointed the way into a dark store room where Tony was hiding. When our team arrived, one of the boys asked the rescuers “Will he live?” It was one of the worst injuries we’d ever seen, but we told him we would try our best to save him. Tony stood very still, probably terrified by his inability to breath properly. We could hear the air coming out of the hole in his side.
This is a video about the real meaning of “emergency” because without immediate emergency surgery, Tony would have likely died within just a couple of hours. After Tony was started on oxygen and sedated, our vet closed the hole puncturing his chest wall, and then inserted a tube to remove the air filling the space around his lungs that had caused them to collapse, so that his lungs could expand and he could breath normally again.
The wound was very dirty and needed to be thoroughly cleaned before we could suture it all back together.
The result? Watch for yourself as Tony, fully healed, lightens up your screen.
Donation link so that the team can continue with their amazing rescues:
Posted on January 19, 2018 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
Photo – EoA
This second part on live animal transport is intended primarily to give EU campaigners (and others) an insight into what information is available; with the hope that you can further research and follow up with your own national authorities if you think necessary. We also outline current work we are undertaking, which is still on going.
So lets get started
– we will try to be as helpful as we can on this. All information is available via the web; but unless, (like us); you really need to get as much info as possible; this data remains hidden from campaigners and observers who may not know of its existence or the large amount of live animal transport info that exists in the ‘hidden depths’.
To start with, we will give links to videos made by friends at ‘AWF’, ‘TSB’ and ‘Eyes on Animals’ regarding their investigations into live EU animals being exported to Turkey; a non EU ‘Third Nation’.
Many visitors will find the videos extremely disturbing and upsetting. They are; and for us also. Unfortunately, they show the real, daily side of what the live animal export trade is about. It happens everywhere around the globe; this is just one snapshot of what happens in one location every day. The same can be said for many global locations all the time. Despite the cruelty which is severe and obvious, this is what makes us, as campaigners, go on investigating. We have to show the world the immense cruelty of the live trade, with the hope that people will act against it.
In addition, and to supplement the videos relating to exports to Turkey, we also suggest that the excellent investigation report by EoA (NL) on the same subject is also read as further evidence of non compliance tor EU animals being transported by road. The report can be accessed via the following link:
The EU animal transport industry from some particular EU member states have routinely been shown to ignore the animal welfare requirements of Regulation 1/2005. It is the norm that certain EU member states do not bother to apply them; and the EU Commission which is the called / supposed to be the ‘guardian of Treaty enforcement’ does nothing as a follow up, even when presented time and time again with evidence such as the videos and report detailed above.
If you wish to have a look at the full version of EU Regulation 1/2005 on the protection of animals during transport, then here below is the link. Note – The information is provided in several formats and all languages of (EU) member state nations. This may make it easier for EU citizens who do not use English as their prime language.
The European Commission, DG Sante project aims to improve animal welfare around transport. The project will develop and disseminate Guides to Good and Better Practice for animals transported within Europe and to third countries for slaughter, fattening and breeding. Guides will be developed for cattle, horses, pigs, poultry and sheep transport. The project started in May 2015 and will finish by the end of 2018.
The project is divided into 5 tasks:
Task 1: Collection
Collect and collate appropriate best practices implemented and supported by scientific evidence
Task 2 and 3: Development
Develop practical guidelines with those that will use it
Task 4: Dissemination
Disseminate these guidelines through the networks of the main European stakeholder groups involved
Task 5: Verification
To verify if the new transport guidelines reached the end-users
Also; something that is very hidden by the EU from anti export campaigners. Now we expose very useful information.
Inspection reports from EU countries
Article 27 of Council Regulation (EC) No 1/2005 on the protection of animals during transport requires the Member States to submit an annual report to the Commission of their inspections of the transport of live animals and to provide an analysis of the major deficiencies detected and an action plan to address them.
Annual reports can be seen in the following link. This site allows access to reports and analysis for the years 2007 through to 2015. As the Animal Transport Guidelines Project started in 2015 and is due to finish in 2018; we can only assume that this is why there is no information available for years 2016 and 2017.
If you select any year via the following link, you should then click on the year of interest.
Lets say we are interested in 2015.
So the first thing we do is use the following link to access all the years:
Next, we then (for example) click on the year of interest; which in our case is 2015.
The year then automatically breaks into 2 sections – namely ‘Report’ and ‘Analysis’.
If you click on the word ‘Report’; you then get automatically directed to pdf for each member state of the EU.
Lets take ‘Bulgaria’ for example; as live EU animals going to Turkey are exported via Bulgaria.
So we click on the link for the pdf file associated for Bulgaria; and we get information as shown in the following link. This data is usually provided in a tabulated form and shows things like:
The animal type when inspected
The number of inspections undertaken within Bulgaria
The number of animals inspected
The number of non compliances with the Regulation (1/2005).
Our example for Bulgaria can be viewed via this link:
This provides us with information relating to an analysis for the animal transport situation for Bulgaria in 2015. Lots of useful and very hidden information !
Important – as we have said, this type of information is available using the links provided for EVERY member state of the EU; and for the years for 2007 through 2015. The information in the reports and analysis may prove to be very useful to many campaign groups involved with fighting the live animal trade in their (EU) country.
SAV Comment
As we said at the start, this information and ways of getting through it are guides which we hope will allow any anti export campaigner within the EU to find out a lot more about the live transport situation in ‘their’ nation, and other EU states for years 2007 through 2015.
I hope this normally hidden data is now exposed for many more campaigners to see and use. There is nothing secret or hidden about this; it is available on ‘normal’ web sites; you just have to know where to go and how to get the info you want.
I hope and trust this data can be used by many to fight the disgusting trade of our day – live animal exports.
Happy info gathering and happy campaigning !
Regards Mark.
For all animals suffering in unnecessary transport.
Posted on January 15, 2018 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
Norway set to ban fur farming
Dear friend
It’s fantastic news.
In what is another blow for the morally bankrupt fur industry, we can confirm that fur farming is expected to be banned by the new government in Norway. The new three party coalition government has agreed to ban fur farming by 2025.
The three parties had been locked in negotiations since January 2nd and are now able to form a government. “Regjeringsplattformen” is an agreement on governing principles between the three parties and a fur farming ban is officially a part of the agreement.
There are 201 fur farms in Norway. In 2017 there were 773,000 mink killed on Norwegian fur farms, as well as 140,000 foxes.
The inherent cruelty of the fur industry has been a major issue in Norway in recent years. In late 2016, the Norwegian Food Safety Authority (Mattilsynet) announced that their inspectors had been shocked by high level of violations and injuries on Norwegian fur farms during recent inspections. On one farm, caged mink were found with such large open sores that they had to be put to death at the scene. Other chronic animal suffering recorded included one mink who had crawled into a plastic pipe and all but skinned itself alive in its efforts to free itself.
Norway can now set an example to the other Scandinavian governments in Denmark, Sweden and Finland. Denmark kills at least 17 million mink every year on factory farms, only surpassed by China. Finland is one of the world’s largest producers of fox fur and Finnish fur farmers have been globally shamed followed the recent exposure of obesity in factory farmed foxes. This is done to generate a larger pelt and to boost profits for the fur trade.
Following a campaign by Respect for Animals, fur farming was banned in the UK in 2000 on the grounds of public morality. Fur factory farming has recently been banned in Holland, Germany, Croatia and Czech Republic.
The fur industry is spending huge amounts of money on self-promotion in a desperate bid to salvage its terrible reputation, but momentum is truly with the anti-fur movement as more and more countries ban fur farming and more and more retailers go officially fur free.
We need to press home our advantage and make the most of our momentum. Please help us if you can.
Posted on January 14, 2018 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
SAV Comment
In the near future we hope to be able to publish 2 major articles on how the EU is failing animals. We are producing these at the moment. Watch this space.
The EU and its Colonies
Above – EU Must Ensure Animal Welfare; or put it another way;
Animal rights activists are firmly convinced that the hell of the “useful” animals can only be improved by two measures:
1. People should stop eating meat and
2. The countries (at least in the EU area) should finally adopt an effective animal welfare law and respect it.
There are also a few, few who have invested great hope in the intervention of the EU. And still believe that the criminal circumstances, especially in the slaughterhouses, can only be abolished by laws, decisions and prohibitions by the EU.
They believe that an EU country can live well on subsidies and thus help animals.
But they forget the example of Romania, as with the EU’s subsidies for the strays and their sterilizations, some have become over one-night rich as “dog catcher “and professional animal killers.
Today I will be more careful with the Dog Catchers business of Romania.
Because in Germany it is just like that at the moment, not with strays, but with wild boar. In many German states, there are now livestock premiums to encourage local hunters to go hunting more often despite falling prices for wild boar meat.
In Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, the land gives the huntsman € 25 for each hunted animal, in Bavaria it is € 20.
I do not know how many are dreaming of EU membership.
All I know is that this dream can become a nightmare.
Because the biggest betrayal of the EU so far is the betrayal of the animals.
And for us too, who have been trying for years to persuade these lazy, high-paid and irreverent gang (the Members of the European Parliament) to do their duty.
Millions of petitions against animal transports were ignored.
Petitions against illegal crimes in German slaughterhouses were also ignored.
Undercover investigations by animal rights activists have recently shocked even carnivores and not vegan citizens of Germany.
For some of those I send as a link below.
But the German government, with the arrogance and indifference of a country that is practically the EU, despises laws and agreements and allows itself to act according to the economic interests of the meat mafia, when and where it suits them. In its own country and in EU countries.
So Germany is no different than the EU dynasty with its 28 colonies. Poverty, credit, profits and economic crises favor the EU for poor countries.
Illegal animal transports, slaughterhouses-Dachau, animal farms like cemeteries support the EU for the animals.
I consider the EU (Germany) to be the moral and economic bankrupt of the 21st century.
And there’s no reason to keep this syndicate alive. No one!
It remains only to discuss how we can eliminate this extermination machine.
The pictures that PETA published from this pig farm in Günthersdorf (Friedland) are no exception – it is the rule in the German pig farms.
In August 2017, PETA filed a complaint with the competent public prosecutor’s office in Frankfurt (Oder) for violating the Animal Welfare Act.
For many serious violations of the Livestock Farming Ordinance.
In addition, the veterinary office of the Oder-Spree district was informed about the abuses.
But the catastrophic conditions were not turned off.
As we see in Video, (and here, nobody needs translation) the pigs have to live in their own excrement in this farm. Coughing animals were documented because of the ammonia.
Also, tumors, eye infections, injured limbs were documented. Many pigs are bitten and bloodied from other pigs on the tips of their ears, because these intelligent and clean animals permanently suffer from boredom, stress and catastrophic living conditions.
Finally, if the costs in the farm are higher than the “economic value” of the animal, it is not uncommon to kill – legally and illegally. Also in this operation (video) dying and already dead animals were documented.
They will end up in the garbage – after a painful life.
PETA has already documented and published massive animal protection violations in this pig farm in Günthersdorf, Brandenburg.
But nothing has been done by either the policy or the veterinary office.
The pig farm belongs to the farmer AG Neißetal, which was subsidized by the EU in 2016 for more than 888,000 Euros,
– among other things for their livestock husbandry!!!
Please read the petition (I did the translation in English) and sign.
Best regards to all
Venus
The petition (Translation in English)
Signature campaign:
Petition: Please help the pigs in Brandenburg
Dear Prime Minister,
PETA was again able to publish the massive animal suffering in a Brandenburg pig farm. This case clearly shows that the problem lies in the system.
Sensitive and intelligent creatures are adapted to a construct that pursues purely economic interests.
The pictures illustrate how animals will be handled in 2017: ailing, heavily stalled animal houses and dirty feed and water troughs. Sick and dying pigs can be seen, also dead and injured animals can be found in the inventory. Bloody ear tips and completely gnawed ticks are only an indication of the psychological and physical stress the animals have to endure.
It is well known how clean and intelligent pigs are, which is why they cannot be kept close to species in the withered and barren bays. In addition, they often make the hard-slatted floors and the air, which is usually contaminated with ammonia, sick. Controls seem to fail once again – or are such conditions in Brandenburg of economic interest wanted?
I therefore urge you to end the suffering of the pigs in this farm and to take measures so that the torments of all pigs in Brandenburg come to an end.
Serbian Animals Voice (SAV) 